I never read. I just look at pictures.

When you are old and grey and full of sleep And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their...

I think the reason why I don’t read so much, is because as I have observed, whole books all boil down to a drop of essence. You can read a book full of ten thousand...

Let me begin with a heartfelt confession.I admit it. I am a biblioholic, one who loves books and whose life would seem incomplete without them. I am an addict, with a compulsive need to stop...

A book is not complete till it reaches a reader.

People who don’t read fiction are scared of what’s inside their own heads.

Why can’t people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

My bother was one of the bigger influences in my life, in as much as he told me I didn’t have to read the choice of books that I as recommended at school, and that...

Literature has the ability to open up a whole new world to children, but we need to have a share in helping them to find that door and open it with them. Let’s set the...

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

To know a man’s library is, in some measure, to know a man’s mind.

Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one’s mind was a paramount duty.

Of all books printed, probably not more than half are ever read. Many are embalmed in public libraries; many go into private quarters to fill spaces; many are glanced at and put away…scarcely opened until...

All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed … No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

…we can pretend that the book in question is not Mr. West’s but mine, made mine by the madness of my reading.

Times change and discoveries are made that render earlier techniques and approaches less effective. Change is inevitable. To remain rigid when the whole world is changing and advancing is to invite misfortune. The AA program...

What’d you need?””Desuetude.””Reading again, are we? Could be dangerous. It means to become unaccustomed to. As in something gets discontinued, falls into disuse.””Thanks, man.””That it?””Yeah, but we should grab a drink sometime.

I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne.

When we are connected to the source, we will not be afraid of any task set before us.

Don’t just float through life; don’t just agree to anything and everything, have a course you are known for at all times.

Literature is news that stays news.

There are adventures of the spirit and one can travel in books and interest oneself in people and affairs. One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy...

When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back.

Something must always remain that eludes us … For power to have an object on which it can be exercised, a space in which to stretch out its arms … As long as I know...

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

He didn’t much like reading novels – he preferred history or philosophy – or poetry, although he could read only a little poetry at a time, because when a poem “spoke to him” it was...

The Cat In The Hat,” I won’t need to protect my sensitive lips anymore.

Jacksonville has more public libraries than people who know how to read.

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.

Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.

Heaven is a warm cat and a good book.

Winny didn’t know what he would do without his books, except probably go berserk and start killing people and making ashtrays out of their skulls even though he didn’t smoke and never would.

I value my anonymity. I’m happy to come in on the tube or the train and watch other people reading ‘Fifty Shades.’

There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.

Reading teaches us receptivity….It teaches us to receive, in stillness and attentiveness, a voice possessed temporarily, on loan….And as we grow accustomed to receiving books in stillness and attentiveness, so we can grow to receive...

I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that’s made by one person, but that’s not true… Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making...

Everyone’s talking about the death and disappearance of the book as a format and an object. I don’t think that will happen. I think whatever happens, we have to figure out a way to protect...

But when your heart is tired and dumb, your soul has need of ease,There’s none like the quiet folk who wait in libraries–The counselors who never change, the friends who never go,The old books, the...

It only took Alexis a day to read a five-hundred page book. Fiction stories took her to another world where she could lose herself for a while in someone else’s life.Its funny how things like...

If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it’s probably because at some level you find ‘reality’ a bit of a disappointment.

The thing about Tolkien, about The Lord of the Rings, is that it’s perfect. It’s this whole world, this whole process of immersion, this journey. It’s not, I’m pretty sure, actually true, but that makes...

Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.

Rest, nature, books, music…such is my idea of happiness.

We become the books we read.

Walking into a bookshop is a depressing thing. It’s not the pretentious twats, browsing books as part of their desirable lifestyle. It’s not the scrubby members of staff serving at the counter: the pseudo-hippies and...

In Tereza’s eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood. For she had but a single weapon against the world of crudity surrounding her: the novels. She had read any number of them, from...

As I turned over the last page, a wave of sorrow enveloped me. Where had they all gone, these people who had seemed so real? To distract myself, I walked out into the night; instinctively,...

Books crowbar the world open for you.